By that time, Dwayne was back in Saskatoon as well.' I taught in Strongfield for a year before moving to a grade six class in Warman, a small community which is even closer to Saskatoon. When I think of the classrooms that I had later, like the one containing 36 grade sevens, I didn't know how good I had it then. These kids were so quiet and wouldn't speak, and I had to really agitate them to get them going because they were just so shy. I had 10 children with five in each grade. 'The next year, I came back closer to home and took a job at Strongfield, a little town about an hour away from Saskatoon, where I taught grades two and three. All Dwayne had was a motor bike, and I had no vehicle, and so the two months passed very slowly.' Consequently, I wasn't any closer to him than I would have been if I'd found a job around Saskatoon. I graduated in April, and for May and June, I got a job down in Coronach which is about three hours south of Regina. That spring, he was working in Regina, and I looked for work close to where he was living. At the time, I was dating Dwayne, the man who would become my husband.

from the University of Saskatchewan here in Saskatoon, I went right into teaching. It just seemed like writing was something that was OK to do, and so I've always done it.'

After the supper dishes were done, she'd always sit on the couch and pull out her notebooks and do some writing. Probably the best influence came from my mom who is a writer as well. I still have scrapbooks that I filled with my big printing at that age. 'I've always enjoyed writing and started writing at about age seven. 'I always played school and tormented my friends by making them be the students while I'd be the teacher.' However, Bev is also an author. Mom's still with us and is a very active senior citizen.'īy profession, Bev is a teacher, something she wanted to be from her early years.

There's 12 years between me and the next child and 14 between me and the oldest, and so I was kind of a 'surprise.' I think my mom was about 46 when I was born, and my arrival must have been quite an adjustment, but she did very well and handled things beautifully. Says Bev, 'I'm the youngest of three children. Beverley, aka Bev, Brenna was born on October 1, 1962, in Saskatoon, SK, a community in which she has lived and worked most of her life.

Wild Orchid by Beverley Brenna